Supermodels SA May 2015 Issue 45 | Page 33

Hope Wade will also be in a second segment of Lifetime’s Project Runway which is basically a critique with Tim Gunn, and she just finished an interview with him. With a big smile she told me she thinks she’ll win and we cannot agree more! Pretty impressive for a self-taught designer, wouldn’t you say? It’s plain to see why this girl is on fire. What inspired you to design the gown that Darlene Love will be wearing to the White House? How do you feel that she is going to wear Hope Wade Designs? I love the colour red; it is a very deep colour and it has a lot of meaning to me. This gown is so graceful and it is almost a period piece. One of the things of this particular design is the rouging used at the waist to accentuate the woman’s figure. This gown that I designed shows elegance, as beautiful as she is, and I know Darlene is going to do well. Can you talk about Project Runway? Well, Project Runway has two segments In the first segment you have Project Runway, where you have about 14 designers competing with one another. During the second segment there is a critique with Tim Gunn. What happen was: I did a video for both segments but their website was down...